Foreword by Anthony, decade in review by Janice Moore. Ten years ago today, I started Watts Up With That with one simple blog entry. Since then, I’ve had 15,559 Posts…
Month: November 2016
Newsbytes: U.S. Geological Survey Discovers 'Largest Oil & Gas Deposit Ever Discovered In America'
The Never-Ending Shale Revolution That Keep On Giving On Tuesday, the USGS announced that a swath of West Texas known as the Wolfcamp shale contains 20 billion barrels of oil…
Gavin Schmidt Warns Donald Trump Not to Interfere with the NASA Climate Division
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has “warned” President-elect Donald Trump not to interfere with their climate activities. Schmidt maintains…
BP: Indonesia's Coal Consumption has Doubled Since 2010
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – According to BP, Indonesia’s coal consumption has doubled since 2010, promoting coal to be the largest source of Indonesian energy. Indonesia’s coal…
Claim: Climate is killing off the Reindeer
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor Bruce Forbes has speculated that increasing frequency of rain in the Arctic, which freezes to hard ice, is starving the reindeer by preventing them…
Let the wailing begin: 'Moral values influence level of climate change action'
From CORNELL UNIVERSITY and the “we have compassion and fairness and you don’t” department comes this eye-roller. One wonders how they might rate the compassion and fairness of this statement:…
Peak Oil Indefinitely Postponed
Guest post by David Middleton The U.S. Geological Survey has made its largest discovery of recoverable crude ever under parts of West Texas, the federal agency announced Tuesday. A recent assessment…
October 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides updates of the values for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature reconstructions—GISS through October 2016 and HADCRUT4 and NOAA…
NOAA: U.S. Tornadoes lowest since 1954 – during the "hottest year ever"
Latest data from NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center indicate that as of today, the total count for 2016 of US tornadoes are fewest in a calendar year since record-keeping began in…
President Trump: The Latest Excuse for Losing Climate Data?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall An Australian climate scientist is concerned that President Trump might shut down US government servers which hold climate data being used to prepare the next…
Ban Ki-Moon to Trump: Action on Climate Change is "Unstoppable"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has warned President-elect Trump that he will not have the power to derail climate programmes, even climate programmes in the…
How lightning strikes can improve storm forecasts
From the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Humans have always been frightened and fascinated by lightning. This month, NASA is scheduled to launch a new satellite that will provide the first nonstop, high-tech…
Finding: Forest fires in Sierra Nevada driven by past land use – not climate
From the University of Arizona and Penn State comes this inconvenient finding. Forest fire activity in California’s Sierra Nevada since 1600 has been influenced more by how humans used the land…
President Obama's Final Green Spending Spree
Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Obama’s administration appears to be pushing out a final hundred million dollars in grants to foreign green projects, ahead of the January 20th handover…
Who needs the Paris climate agreement? CO2 emissions are declining on their own
From the UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA Low growth in global carbon emissions continues for third successive year Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels did not grow in 2015 and…
"Republicans plan multi-billion dollar climate budget raid"
Guest post by David Middleton By Megan Darby in Marrakech US Republicans are expected to axe billions of dollars in climate finance when they take the White House and Congress…
BBC Resurrecting the Dead to Make Up Climate News
Tom Barr writes: The BBC is up to its old tricks, using any old snap to support its warmist position. Apparently desperate to support the Marrakech Alarmist Junket still reeling…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #248
The Week That Was: 2016-11-12 (November 12, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)…
GreatAgain.gov: Energy Independence
Guest post by David Middleton Energy Independence The Trump Administration will make America energy independent. Our energy policies will make full use of our domestic energy sources, including traditional and…
Climate Advocates Look to Totalitarian China for Leadership
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Trump’s America cancelling billions of dollars of UN climate payments apparently opens the way for totalitarian China to assume the moral high ground in global…
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